Fwd: Contribute to Apache Milagro?

[Brian Spector <br...@qredo.com>]

Hi Kirk and Paul,

Thanks for the update on your work on the Rust library. That’s very exciting.

We’ve requested the repo be setup this am which will be at incubator-milagro-crypto-rust.

We’re very aware of the BLS signature IETF draft and are working towards implementing that capability in both C and JavaScript libraries as we speak.

I did not know about the Telegram channel, thanks for that.

In regards to pushing upstream, the best thing to do for the project is to just keep pushing your work as it happens into a forked feature branch off of the dev branch of incubator-milagro-crypto-rust.

It would show you are serious about contributing and then we can vote one or both of you into the project as full fledged contributors, which means you have direct access to the repo.

The ICLA is here to download: https://www.apache.org/licenses/contributor-agreements.html#clas

You may wish to do a CLA for Sigma Prime.

If you send those forms into secretary@apache.org and let me know when you have done that we can schedule votes for you all to become contributors. You will need one form for each dev.

Let me know what else we can do for you all in the interim.

Cheers,
Brian

Forwarded message:

From: Kirk Baird <ki...@sigmaprime.io>
To: Brian Spector <br...@qredo.com>
Cc: Paul Hauner <pa...@sigmaprime.io>
Subject: Re: Contribute to Apache Milagro?
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:20:52 +1000
Hi Brian,

That's very good to hear. We at Sigma Prime are writing an Ethereum2.0 client which use BLS381 Signatures extensively. Hence we've created a wrapper around the curve points to turn them into Signatures/PublicKeys and I'd be more than happy to push my work upstream and help contributing into the future.

I'm not sure if you've heard but there is currently a push for a BLS12-381 Standard https://github.com/pairingwg/bls_standard. I've been helping with by implementing the hash-to-curve functions, which in our library is not fully tested yet but when the standard settles a little more I'd be happy to push these upstream too. There is also a Telegram channel for the standard if you are interested https://t.me/bls_standard_wg.

Cheers Kirk

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 16:03, Brian Spector <br...@qredo.com>> wrote:
Hi Paul, we are going to create a dedicated Rust repo. We should have that up today.
Cheers,
Brian

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From: Paul Hauner <pa...@paulhauner.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 4:49:28 AM
To: Brian Spector
Cc: Kirk Baird
Subject: Re: Contribute to Apache Milagro?

Hi Brian,
  I hope you're well. We were looking for the Milagro repository and we noticed this repository<https://github.com/apache/incubator-milagro-crypto> has been archived.

I saw here<https://github.com/apache/incubator-milagro> that "For the time being, only the C and JavaScript libraries are being supported going forward." Does this mean that the Rust library is no longer supported, please?

Kind Regards,

Paul Hauner

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 11:23 PM Paul Hauner <pa...@paulhauner.com>> wrote:
Hi Brian,
  Thanks for reaching out and your contributions to Milagro.

The majority of our work has been around “wrapping” Milagro and adding a signature API. I’m not sure this is really appropriate for the core library?

We have been working on some optimizations and new hashing algorithms though, I'll definitely talk to the team about pushing these upstream once they're clean/sane.

Talk soon,
Paul

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 4:47 pm, Brian Spector <br...@qredo.com>> wrote:
Hi Paul,

this is Brian Spector, I'm a contributor to Apache Milagro, copied is Kealan McCusker, another contributor.

Would you mind contributing back the work you have done on https://github.com/sigp/milagro_bls directly back into the Milagro project? I noticed a couple of you have been working on it, we're looking for additional contributors.

Best regards,
Brian

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